To build blue, the following programs are used:
Contains javac java compiler and other development tools.
The Netbeans IDE is used to develop Blue. It is recommended to use Netbeans for compiling and developing the program. It is available at http://www.netbeans.org.
Ant is build tool for Java projects. It is available at http://ant.apache.org. This is required if building from the commandline.
JUnit is required to run the unit tests and is integrated as part of the build.
xsltproc is used to build all versions of the manual. To build the PDF manual, Apache FOP and Sun JAI library are required.